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Clearly Biased PP/Convoy References cuz Fascism
Trump order on gender prompts pressure on Ottawa to give America’s trans community safe haven in Canada
Canadian transgender advocates want Ottawa to clarify whether Canadian passports with a gender-neutral X will still be recognized at U.S. border crossings, and to ensure that trans travellers will be permitted to enter the U.S.
Fascism in Canada
From heroes to hated: Health-care workers sign open letter slamming abuse - National | Globalnews.ca
This piece especially hit hard for me, as it reflects trends that I’m seeing even in my immediate circles – a backlash against those of us who have worked tirelessly through the pandemic only to now be perceived as “Leftist morons”.
“But on Monday, when Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth walked into her office, she had a different kind message waiting on her answering machine. “You’re a lying a– c—,” said the voicemail, which was left on the phone at her family health practice in Ottawa over the weekend. “I bet you love doing abortions, that’s why you’ve got a hyphen in your name, couldn’t even take take your f— husband’s last name. I’m sure of it. Another f—— extreme leftist, freakin’ extreme feminist c– who is just trying to destroy the world. Those people are fighting for your freedoms too, you dumb c—.”
The "Convoy"Speaking the fascist’s language: Pierre Poilievre’s perfidious rhetorical appeal for working class votes : r/onguardforthee
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Have far-right radicals infiltrated Canada’s conservative parties? We’re about to find out | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
For years now, Canada’s Conservatives have played footsie with an increasingly radicalized right-wing populist movement. The sooner their relationship with them is brought into the light, the better it will be for everyone else.
The convoy is not peaceful: megalist
The Ottawa convoy is not peaceful: megalist I recommend reading this (if you are not in Ottawa) with this drone footage on full volume, to get the full, horrible, experience. This list contains exclusively incidents in Ottawa, and does not account for actions in other Canadian cities or at the b...
Extremists target Trudeau and Canada
The far right is a transnational movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy by spreading disinformation on social media, smearing democratic leaders, and causing chaos.
Elon Musk and other billionaires back Pierre Poilievre because if he wins, they'll get richer. Poilievre is clear in this interview that he will cut health care and more. He will cut from you, to give CEOs what they want. The middle class will pay even more and the rich will get even richer.
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Pierre Poilievre - Aboriginals need to learn the value of hard work
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'That guy's fantastic': American far-right strategizer Christopher Rufo praises Pierre Poilievre
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PM Justin Trudeau On "Canada's Trump" And The Rise Of Far-Right Xenophobia In Canada
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Canadian Conservatives Propose Bill for Online Digital ID Verification and Anonymity Restrictions
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Interesting to see Canada's far-right Rebel News listed in leaked Kremlin documents as one of the platforms that published chaos-fueling agitprop memes "literally prepared by the Kremlin"
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The Deafening Silence From Canadian Media/Conservative Politicians On Russian Espionage In Our Politics And Media Is Pretty Fucking Telling
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Shared from Copilot: MAGA is turning against Laura Loomer : r/politics
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Far-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and two of his predecessors all follow Lauren Chen, who was just linked to a Russian influence operation.
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Far-Right Media Outlet Linked to Secret Russian Influence Campaign Produced 50+ Videos Focused on Canada
Canadian videos produced by far-right media outlet at centre of a US Department of Justice indictment were viewed half a million times
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Misrepresenting the data on crime - The John Howard Society of Canada
Actually reading the report on crime rates in Canada undermines the dominant media narrative of a 'crime wave'.
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Corporate lobbyists are flocking to Pierre Poilievre’s cash-for-access fundraisers ⋆ The Breach
More than a hundred active or recent corporate lobbyists have attended the Conservative Party’s cash-for-access fundraisers since Pierre Poilievre became leader
Big Real Estate Executives Among Top Donors to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives
Conservative Party’s donor list includes names of real estate investors and developers that are buying up affordable housing across Canada
A Moment for Canada’s Far Right, Still Struggling for Support - The New York Times
The country’s political system has made it hard for fringe groups to gain influence. But a new cause, and fund-raising across borders, could begin to fuel Canadian populists.
B.J. Dichter, who was listed on the convoy’s official fund-raiser alongside Ms. Lich, has said that “political Islam” is “rotting away at our society like syphilis.”
The organizers are mostly fringe activists, rather than truck drivers, an overwhelming majority of whom are vaccinated.
Pat King, who is listed as an official contact for a regional group involved in the protest and has been a prominent champion of the protests online, has called Covid a “man-made bioweapon” and claimed that international financiers seek to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.” He has said of lockdowns, “The only way that this is going to be solved is with bullets.”
“You did have far-right populism — historically it was there — but it was isolated,” said Jeffrey S. Kopstein, a Canadian political scientist at the University of California, Irvine.
Canada’s populist right has lagged, Dr. Kopstein said, in part because the typical drivers of such movements — cultural polarization and white racial resentment — are less prevalent in the country than in other Western nations.
The country’s large and politically well-organized immigrant populations mean that both major parties see greater gain in courting immigrants than in cultivating white backlash.
As a result, Canada’s Conservative leaders have neither embraced nor been co-opted by the more extreme elements in their base to the same degree as some other right-wing parties.
Romana Didulo, a Canadian QAnon activist who has called for military executions of doctors who vaccinate children.
Canada’s populist right, though homegrown, is also heavily influenced by its far more numerous and better-resourced American counterparts. This helps provide the movement with energy and direction, though often in ways that hinder its influence in Canada, where Donald J. Trump is deeply unpopular.
But in years since, populist movements across the Western world have continued to rise and to coordinate across borders, helping to aid their Canadian counterparts’ slow but steady growth.
In a demonstration of this effect in action, a number of American political and media figures, including Mr. Trump, have forcefully endorsed or promoted the trucker protests. Americans are thought to have provided much of the $8 million raised online for the convoy.
And there is another change: Canada’s Conservative Party, after a difficult year, may be rethinking its longstanding practice of isolating conservative fringes.
Party officials recently ousted Erin O’Toole, the party leader, in part, they said, for insufficiently embracing the truck protests.
The new interim leader attracted controversy last year when a photo surfaced showing her wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Several Conservative lawmakers have since visited the protests in support. One was photographed alongside Mr. King, the white nationalist and conspiracy theorist, though later issued a statement condemning “any violent rhetoric.”
In some ways, support for the protests seems to reflect public opinion oscillations related more to the pandemic than to the far right.
Canada’s Secret to Resisting the West’s Populist Wave - The New York Times
Minority voters have a large political voice, immigration is seen as positive and multicultural identities are encouraged.
Outsiders might assume this is because Canada is simply more liberal, but they would be wrong. Rather, Canada has resisted the populist wave through a set of strategic decisions, powerful institutional incentives, strong minority coalitions and idiosyncratic circumstances.
In other Western countries, right-wing populism has emerged as a politics of us-versus-them. It pits members of white majorities against immigrants and minorities, driven by a sense that cohesive national identities are under threat. In France, for instance, it is common to hear that immigration dilutes French identity, and that allowing minority groups to keep their own cultures erodes vital elements of Frenchness.
Identity works differently in Canada. Both whites and nonwhites see Canadian identity as something that not only can accommodate outsiders, but is enhanced by the inclusion of many different kinds of people.
Canada is a mosaic rather than a melting pot, several people told me — a place that celebrates different backgrounds rather than demanding assimilation.
Jason Kenney, then a Conservative member of Parliament, convinced Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the party should court immigrants, who — thanks to Mr. Trudeau’s efforts — had long backed the Liberal Party.
“I said the only way we’d ever build a governing coalition was with the support of new Canadians, given changing demography,” Mr. Kenney said.
The result is a broad political consensus around immigrants’ place in Canada’s national identity.
That creates a virtuous cycle. All parties rely on and compete for minority voters, so none has an incentive to cater to anti-immigrant backlash. That, in turn, keeps anti-immigrant sentiment from becoming a point of political conflict, which makes it less important to voters.
In Britain, among white voters who say they want less immigration, about 40 percent also say that limiting immigration is the most important issue to them. In the United States, that figure is about 20 percent. In Canada, according to a 2011 study, it was only 0.34 percent.
In Canada, because all parties compete for all ethnic blocs, minorities do not tend to polarize into just one party. That leaves little incentive for tribalism, even as minority groups feel empowered to champion their ethnic or religious identity.
But because Canadian politics accounts for diversity without polarizing across ethnic or religious lines, it is more resilient. Everyone, including whites, becomes less likely to see politics as a game of us versus them.
Rapid changes in demographics tend to spur anti-immigrant sentiment within the dominant group, experts say, bolstering far-right politicians who promise harsh tactics against outsiders.
But although Canada’s high immigration rates have transformed the country in just a few decades, the public has mostly been calm and accepting.
One reason may be Canada’s unusual immigration policies. A sponsorship system, in which Canadian families host newcomers, allows communities to feel they are a part of the country’s refugee resettlement program.
And a points system, which favors migrants who are thought to contribute economically, makes immigration feel like something that benefits everyone.
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Shared from Bing: How the alt-right laid siege to Pickering city council
Councillor Lisa Robinson’s supporters have disrupted Pickering city council, sidelining the business of local government with threats and outbursts from the gallery.
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Poilievre Pulverized: Viral Clip Shows Conservative Leader Eviscerated at First Nations Conference Before Literally Running Out A Back Door With Security. LOLZ - Crier Media
Pierre Poilievre faces intense criticism: Viral clip shows Conservative leader shit his pants amidst tough questions from Indigenous leaders.
Pierre Poilievre and the Politics of Intimidation | The Tyee
The Conservatives are emboldening violent extremists and undermining democracy.
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